Matt Cardle v Olly Murs: X Factor Celebrity Face Off

Former X Factor stars
Matt Cardle and Olly Murs will be going head to head at the BT Digital Music Awards, but which one will win our Celebrity Face Off?

Olly Murs and Matt Cardle battle it out for success in our Celebrity Face Off

Chart success

Both Matt and Olly have enjoyed sitting pretty at the top of the charts since launching their pop careers.

Matt’s first single When We Collide reached Christmas No.1 (as was expected from every X Factor act since Alexandra Burke – who famously didn’t).

Since then we haven’t heard much from Cardle in the charts and he isn’t releasing his first single Run For Your Life until October 10 before his new album Letters hits stores on October 17.

Olly Murs’ collaboration with Rizzle Kicks went straight to number one (Picture: PA)

Olly, despite not winning The X Factor, has already enjoyed two number one hits. The first was Please Don’t Let Me Go, which saw the singer pose naked for a magazine to celebrate; the second is more recent, pipping Calvin Harris to the post with Heart Skips A Beat. Not bad for a runner-up.

Winner Round One:Olly wins for bagging two number ones while Matt is yet to release his first album.

X Factor success

The only reason Matt is gracing this page at all is because he achieved ultimate success in the talent scouting competition, by winning it.

Cardle beat off stiff competition from soulful yet stony-faced Rebecca and grinning pick ‘n’ mix boy band One Direction to snag the £1m record deal.

Although he hasn’t spoken to Simon Cowell since the show ended, there’s no doubt that Matt was a popular winner.

Matt Cardle won X Factor last year (Picture: Action Images)

Olly popped up in series 6 of X Factor – which Joe McElderry then went on to win – alongside colourful characters such as Miss Frank, Stacey Solomon and now Big Brother contestants Jedward.

Murs saw off the wacky twosome, but lost to McElderry in the final – close; but no cigar.

Winner Round Two:Matt gets this one, obviously

Style

Matt had a penchant for hats – one hat in particular was his ‘lucky cap’, which he donned for almost every performance, including his first audition.

Matt does scrub up well when he’s ready….

The When We Collide singer tried to change up his attire during the live shows, with Simon telling him at one point he looked like he’d just come off the toilet when he decided to appear on stage in a vest, but in the end Matt looks decidedly better in jeans, a shirt of some sort, and that lucky plumber’s hat.

Olly, Olly, Olly: Never without that hat or a pair of oxygen restricting jeans (Picture: Xposure)

Like Matt, Olly is known for the trademark hat he sports in every single one of his videos.

If he hasn’t got a hat on his head, you can be guaranteed the Thinking Of Me singer will have skinny jeans on his legs. In Olly’s defence, however, since landing the gig on Xtra Factor, the cheeky chappy has smartened up his act, sort of.